New research suggests ancient islanders may have migrated across the Pacific in response to shifting rainfall. As the west grew drier and the east wetter, people may have followed water to survive.

It floats, it drifts, it doesn’t break down. Plastic in the ocean is everywhere, but now it’s doing more than polluting. It’s ...

A powerful milestone for our shared ocean is about to be achieved,” writes columnist. “The United Nations’ High Seas Treaty will go into effect on Jan. 17 after two ...

Oceans are also important because they greatly affect weather patterns. As air passes over the ocean, it picks up heat and ...

In order to understand currents, tides and other ocean dynamics, scientists need to accurately capture sea surface height, or ...

A new international analysis published in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences on 9 January finds that the Earth’s ocean stored ...

The world’s oceans are becoming dangerously acidic. A controversial proposal would raise the pH — by mixing chemicals into ...

They thought ammonia-oxidizing microbes were doing the work. But the real carbon fixers were hiding in plain sight.

Saltwater crocodiles are incredible creatures. They'vespread themselves all over the Indo-Pacific region, even though long ...

Almost one decade of recorded data retrieved from deep coral reef dives reveals some of the first evidence of that climate ...

The ocean is saturated with microplastics. While we know the location of the great garbage patches, where plastic particles may accumulate below the ocean surface remains unknown. The vastness of the ...

Far below the waves, between about 1.2 and 3.1 miles (two to five kilometers) down, sunlight never reaches and the water sits just above freezing. In that darkness, animals and microbes should ...